of Fishes found in Cornwall. 87 
BRANCHIOSTEGOUS FISHES. 
CYCLOPTERUS. 
Lumpfish. C. Lumpus.—This fish appears to reside in our seas 
through the year, but is not often taken. But a small fish 
of this genus, which I am rather in doubt whether I should 
consider as the young of this species, or another and di- 
stinct, is found plentifully in stony ground in four or five 
fathoms of water. It is rarely found longer than an inch, 
and differs from the C. Lumpus in the skin between the tu- 
_ bercles being quite smooth. If it be indeed the young of 
the above species, it seems surprising that when full grown 
it should not be more frequently taken. 
Jura Sucker. C. Cornubiensis.—I have seen two varieties of 
this fish, if they were not distinct species; in one the snout 
is shaped like a spatula; in the other it was shorter, and 
ended in a point. The body and head are wide and de- 
pressed, with the eyes at the sides, and before each a double 
fleshy process, about the tenth of an inch long, in a fish 
that measured two inches; there is a fleshy tubercle close 
behind these processes. ‘The lips membranous ; the lower 
jaw a little the shortest, opening with a very wide gape. 
Behind the head are two dark spots, each with a blueish 
speck in the middle. ‘The body tapers to the tail; the 
dorsal and anal fins begin at a third of the whole length 
. from the tail, and run back to that part; the pectorals are 
far behind; the tail round. "The sucking apparatus is 
formed of two circles, one before the other, furnished with 
numerous very small tubercles. The colour is dusky, some- 
times crimson; the belly flesh-coloured. When the colours 
faded after death, I observed many spots on the sides, which 
were 
